Jeremy Allison put forth on 1/27/2010 5:18 PM: >> Is "max smbd processes" not an accurate description? Would it better >> be described as "max smbd concurrent clients" or "max smbd user processes"? > > Yes, that's a better description.
Understood. > There's also the printer background lpq updater process, that's the > third one. We should probably update the description to make this > clear. It's all working as designed. You can always comment out > the code for this (it's in printing/printing.c:start_background_queue()) > if you are resource constrained. Aha, so that's what the third one is. As I don't do printer sharing this possibility slipped my mind. I'm not so resource constrained as to start hacking source. I always stick with my distro's packages unless extreme circumstances require going to source, and this really isn't one of them. Maybe there could be a future smb.conf option to completely disable printer sharing and the launch of the deamon process? I noticed in the documentation I quoted earlier something about running Samba from inetd. Is this (easily) doable? Would running from inetd be advantageous in my low resource consumption scenario, processes exiting after a period of inactivity? Or would this cause more problems than it would solve? Thanks Jeremy. -- Stan P.S. We briefly met once a few years ago when you were in St. Louis. You stopped by Whitfield School to troubleshoot an issue with the AD code. I was the sysadmin there at the time. You were working for Novell at that time. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba